Parking Ticket- Hope Valley/Edale- is this reasonable grounds to appeal?

Bank holiday Monday, I put £3 on the meter (as I didnt think I would be more than 3hours). Get back late and theres a ticket on. Now, my arguement is I didnt think I would get lost twice on the loop. Due to the nature of the area/sort of parkers' that the area attracts that you cant always be sure how long you will be out? I.e. I was NOT evading paying extra. Is this reasonable grounds to appeal on?

No the park authority will not take this as an excuse. They will prob state you should have purchased a longer stay ticket. Mate of mines ticket fell off dashboard and he had to send in the ticket to get the fine reversed.

You shouldn't have to pay to park when you're on a bike. Park somewhere 'free' on your route and ride from there. Save the town centre carparks for the town visitors.

Your defence is crap but if you ever want to appeal get busy with the camera and the contents of the ticket looking for technicalities that get you off such as 'obscured signage', 'incomplete tickets', etc.

If it's a private car park (not council) and there's a scale of charges just send them an amount that corresponds to time you overstayed (their losses that you are liable for) and then tell them to sod off with their silly fines.

Hora you are daft as a brush mate! Its a bit like being late for work and just flippantly saying you overlaid. Or maybe beaing late to a job interview and aying you got stuck in traffic. Its just an excuse and there would be more chance inyou getting your money back than IVH sending his goods out to internet buyers.

I belted down the lane (passed the turning just before the old farm shacks) and ended up at the bottom of the steep lane/road. Climbed back up....took the correct fork and still ended up almost going upto reservoir itself

I am in receipt of your letter dated [insert the date Miss Jones] alleging that a vehicle registered to me overstayed an arbitrary duration in a vehicle park attached to one of your stores.

As I am sure you will be aware, it is the driver of the vehicle with whom any contract to park was made, not the Registered Keeper. You will also be aware that the terms of any such contract must be set out in such a manner as to be obvious to anyone with whom you wished to make the contract. These terms must comply with all applicable contract law, such as the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

Should you wish to pursue this claim, please supply evidence that the person parking the vehicle you allege to have overstayed the set duration would have had the opportunity to read the contract terms. Such evidence must be, as a minimum:
a detailed route and timings of the vehicle's travel into and through the vehicle park;
a detailed route of the driver's passage out of the vehicle and into the store - this and the evidence listed immediately above are to show that the driver had reasonable opportunity to see and read the contract terms;
photographs of all relevant signage in situ in locus in quo at the time of the alleged overstaying so as to show that the signs were actually readable;
an accurately-drawn, scaled, map showing the location of each sign and indicating which you believe the driver would have had the easy opportunity to read (the routes of the vehicle and driver should be superimposed upon the map);
details of the weather conditions at the time, in particular the visibility (all to be confirmed by the Meteorological Office);
sufficient details of the driver with whom you claim to have made a contract to enable their unique identification;
a detailed description of the processes followed to record and analyse the evidence of the alleged overstaying; and
a notarised statement from a senior manager at the store to the effect that your recording and analytical systems were working normally at the time of the alleged overstaying.
Without the above, I cannot entertain your claim and any further demands for payment will be considered harassment and will be reported to the police with a view to your criminal prosecution under s1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1998, s85 of the Postal Services Act 2000, s127 of the Communications Act 2003, and/or s2 of the Protection from Harrassment Act 1997 - this last with a view to the court issuing a Restraining Order against you. Additionally, civil action will be taken against you personally and your employer to cease and desist and for the recovery of all costs, together with a substantial payment in compensation for the mental pain and suffering caused.

I expect your reply by return, either providing the evidence requested above or indicating simply your termination of this correspondence.

I am in receipt of your letter dated [insert the date Miss Jones] alleging that a vehicle registered to me overstayed an arbitrary duration in a vehicle park attached to one of your stores.

As I am sure you will be aware, it is the driver of the vehicle with whom any contract to park was made, not the Registered Keeper. You will also be aware that the terms of any such contract must be set out in such a manner as to be obvious to anyone with whom you wished to make the contract. These terms must comply with all applicable contract law, such as the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

Should you wish to pursue this claim, please supply evidence that the person parking the vehicle you allege to have overstayed the set duration would have had the opportunity to read the contract terms. Such evidence must be, as a minimum:
a detailed route and timings of the vehicle's travel into and through the vehicle park;
a detailed route of the driver's passage out of the vehicle and into the store - this and the evidence listed immediately above are to show that the driver had reasonable opportunity to see and read the contract terms;
photographs of all relevant signage in situ in locus in quo at the time of the alleged overstaying so as to show that the signs were actually readable;
an accurately-drawn, scaled, map showing the location of each sign and indicating which you believe the driver would have had the easy opportunity to read (the routes of the vehicle and driver should be superimposed upon the map);
details of the weather conditions at the time, in particular the visibility (all to be confirmed by the Meteorological Office);
sufficient details of the driver with whom you claim to have made a contract to enable their unique identification;
a detailed description of the processes followed to record and analyse the evidence of the alleged overstaying; and
a notarised statement from a senior manager at the store to the effect that your recording and analytical systems were working normally at the time of the alleged overstaying.
Without the above, I cannot entertain your claim and any further demands for payment will be considered harassment and will be reported to the police with a view to your criminal prosecution under s1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1998, s85 of the Postal Services Act 2000, s127 of the Communications Act 2003, and/or s2 of the Protection from Harrassment Act 1997 - this last with a view to the court issuing a Restraining Order against you. Additionally, civil action will be taken against you personally and your employer to cease and desist and for the recovery of all costs, together with a substantial payment in compensation for the mental pain and suffering caused.

I expect your reply by return, either providing the evidence requested above or indicating simply your termination of this correspondence.

If you get a ticket in Sainsburys, Tescos etc and send that letter, expect a world of pain.

Responding to any communication from a PPC marks you as a fish and they'll harrass you for ages.

Completely ignore anything they send to you. I really can't stress this enough. Never, never, never write to them or call them. They'll send 4-5 letters then give up.

If you communicate with them they'll hound you for a lot longer.

There is no reasoning with them. The points in that sample letter are completely valid, but the PPC has no appeals process. They know what they're doing is a scam and nothing will persuade them to stop harassing you, other than completely ignoring them in the first place. You have a 1 in a million chance of them ever taking you to court.

S Works. That is without doubt the most bizarre piece of disproportionnate cod-legal tosserism I have ever read. Astounding, unbelievable, responsibility-evading, ruining-everything-for-everyone bollocks made of hand-engraved bollock-kryptonite and set with big knob-off fat 48carat brilliant-cut conflict diamonds mined with child slave labour in the giant bollock-mines of bollockdom. I salute in awe-struck wonder the sheer majestic size and depth of the gaping void where the sense of proportion and dignity belongs in anyone who would seriously entertain sending such a ludicrous letter because they didn't want to pay for over-staying in a carpark and were willing to lie about it.